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Aero Wang
Aero Wang

Reputation: 9217

How to specific ip and hostname when making http or https requests?

https.request({
  ip: '127.0.0.1',
  hostname:'internal.hostname_required_for_certificate.com',
  method: 'GET',
  path: '/'
})

Above code doesn't work, meaning I need to send a request to 127.0.0.1 while in the request it is sending https://internal.hostname_required_for_certificate.com/...

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2902

Answers (2)

fardjad
fardjad

Reputation: 20394

You can manually specify a Host header:

const req = https.request({
    host: '127.0.0.1',
    method: 'GET',
    path: '/',
    headers: {
        'Host': 'internal.hostname_required_for_certificate.com'
    }
}, (res) => {
    res.setEncoding('utf8');
    res.pipe(process.stdout);
});

req.end();

Upvotes: 1

Biswadev
Biswadev

Reputation: 1486

host/ip : A domain name or IP address of the server to issue the request to. Default: 'localhost'.

hostname Alias for host. To support url.parse(), hostname will be used if both host and hostname are specified.

Since you have provided both its taking hostname while processing get request

https://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_http_request_options_callback

Upvotes: 0

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